Monday, 17 March 2008

More pictures of Ramsgate’s western undercliff and promenade.

I do hope I’m not boring anyone with this lot I know many of them are so similar, today I had to throw more than half the post (adverting circulars) into the recycle bin and more than half my telephone calls have been advertising calls from call centres. I think I am right in saying that Ramsgate’s main sewage outlet was at the western undercliff at this time, making it rather an unusual place to build a children’s pool. Anyway on that thought provoking note I have published and await damnation click here to view the pictures.
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 17, 2008 3:43 pm

    It is true about the sewage pipe. I used to live in the area and I used to watch the tide times before I took my children on the beach.
    It was seill lovely though.

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  2. Michael ChildMarch 17, 2008 4:52 pm

    Anonymous the first towns sewage pipe definitely came out there see Map of Ramsgate in 1849 I am uncertain when they started treating sewage or when is stopped being discharged there, however I am assured that sewage is not discharged there now.

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  3. Little WeedMarch 17, 2008 6:07 pm

    I'll never be bored with them and there is always a slight interesting difference- but what were the trees in pots all about?

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  4. AnonymousMarch 18, 2008 12:04 am

    Boring!! no way, keep 'em coming. Brilliant.

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  5. Michael ChildMarch 18, 2008 11:18 am

    Thanks for the encouragement I am at an early proof stage with the book “Postcards of Old Ramsgate 2” the next hard copy version of the pictures that I have been publishing on the web recently. At this point the Question that arises is, what if anything to leave out?

    The hard copies are essential for the permanent preservation of the images, obviously printed with high definition laser so that they won’t fade, but still people are expected to pay for them and I don’t want come up with something so obsessive that it doesn’t sell, that would defeat the object. People are buying “Postcards of Old Ramsgate 1” so I am probably getting it right, but feedback is very important to make sure that my preservation task is being performed in the right way.

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  6. MitchMarch 19, 2008 4:33 pm

    Keep 'em coming Michael they're brilliant. I seem to spend forever making comparisons. The more the merrier!!!!
    As little weed say's 'what are the potted trees about' please?

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  7. Michael ChildMarch 19, 2008 4:55 pm

    My research into the significance of the potted trees seems to have met a bit of a dead end, the 1934 Ramsgate holiday guide says that the corporation have spared no pains to make this area one of the most attractive spots around our coasts, so I suppose as this bit is mostly flat concrete it’s probably them sparing pains.

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.